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Brexit Happens!
Today the Queen gave her royal assent to the final Brexit bill. In one week’s time, the UK is out! They say it couldn’t be done, but they did it! The closest video I could find to express my mood was this scene from MASH:
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We clearly need a ricochet live chat for the ceremonies
Absolutely lovely news!
And a yes to the live chat; I had a hangover that lasted two days after the Brexit vote live chat …
It’s there when you need it:
http://ricochet.com/live-chat/
Gonna be fun watching UK celebrities melt down over this. Capt. Picard is gonna be so upset!
about time.
Son #2 is home today – I just interrupted his … whatever. I never know what he’s doing.
Anyway, his first response was that the Queen must be so happy after dealing with all her family nonsense.
Congrats Brits! However the latest scuttlebutt from the EU is that they are preparing a very punitive and very stupid exit deal – really stupid for they need the Brits more than the Brits need the EU. Perhaps the Donald will step in and beat the EU brass about the head and face in the very bloody manner they fully deserve.
Now, let’s see if you beat your own record!
I do love a challenge …
It’s a rare opportunity for President Trump to initiate a positive change in the course of history that would be ranked with the free trade English triumph of the 1870s. It could be done very quickly, perhaps even with a single executive order, given his current delegated powers over trade.
I hope for the sake of the US, the UK, and the rest of the world that he takes it.
Good news indeed. The Eurocrats still have to approve the deal, though. The first step along that way is done but there’s one more to go next Wednesday. Just a formality, I suppose, but then so was the Queen’s Royal Assent.
It ain’t over till the fat Europarliament sings.
I think Brussels is SOL on this one …
That’s what I don’t understand.
“We no longer want to be a part of your organization. We want to leave.”
“Only if we let you.”
What is this, the mob?
Yeah, pretty much.
From the links you and @torywarwriter provided there are two more formalities to be accomplished prior to that: Is it possible that the formal Parliamentary approval on the 29th could fall through? What are the chances the EU rejects it? And if the EU doesn’t approve the deal – then what?
Well according to Lincoln you couldnt just leave the club either
There is a hard deadline involved in the exiting process. Previous governments always got extensions on that but if both parties dont agree its a hard brexit on WTO terms.
So if the EU fails to pass the vote…
I just want to spend a moment re-living that night. It was June 23, 2016. I’d been working all day; I checked the #s before I drove home and figured it was a “no”.
I got home, checked Ricochet. I believe @iWe had a post up that the numbers were getting close. Dinner was abandoned. A son was sent to the liquor store and I spent the next however many hours in the live chat with a compulsive toggle to the live BBC numbers and didn’t stop (drinking and toggling) until the “yes” was over 50%.
When it was all over, it was the first inkling that I had that “the times were a-changing”. That maybe there was some hope left.
The ensuing meltdown from my crazy Scottish cousins on FB was the icing on the cake.
November 8, 2016 was the perfect bookend.
How fun, the UK will get their very own Independence Day holiday. Happy 23rd of June!
I was watching the results from work, meeting people later at the brewery, expecting it to be a bummer. By the time I got there, the die was cast. It was a happy moment but my joy was eroded by the series of screw-ups that followed. Theresa May… really? And then she calls an election, only to lose seats. I’ll admit to enjoying her tears when she resigned. Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.
They really ought to make it July 4th. After all, they already celebrate it as “Rid of Those Troublesome Colonists Day” . . .
And the EU just sent there signed part over to Boris today.